Pandemic preparedness tools

These tools include an inventory of H5N1 avian influenza genetic changes and a system the CDC and its partners are developing to help evaluate the threat from flu viruses circulating in animals, the release stated.

According to the release, the CDC posted details about the new tools on its website yesterday, the same day highly anticipated findings from the second of two controversial H5N1 transmission studies — this one from a group at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands — was published in Science.